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What the Apparatus Is Owed
Minsk has released political prisoners in batches for a year. The work of producing new cases has not slowed. A new book on careers inside dictatorships…
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What a Personnel File Can See
A new network map of the Belarusian elite is most useful where rank and position part ways. Its boldest claims depend on how the ties were drawn.
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Only Nineteen by Order
This week a Belarusian court sentenced Dmitry Laieuski, once the lawyer for Viktar Babaryka, to three years for giving interviews to independent media.
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Gross and Net
Last week a headline said Belarusians had handed in almost 1.5 billion dollars of foreign currency in a single month.
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The Envoy Arrived the Next Day
A Polish expert report asks Europe to tell real change from a "false dawn". It gives no way to measure the difference, and public registers already hold…
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The Heir Was Easy to Find
On 14 September YouTube terminated another group of Belarusian state channels.
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The Work That Travels
A widely shared post last week reported that the number of sole traders in Belarus fell 11.8% over the year to 1 August 2026, and that the worst-hit…
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The Week Culture Changed Hands
Every week our digest sorts Belarusian coverage into sixteen topics and records how much of each comes from state outlets and how much from independent…
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The Evidence Was Already Public
On 3 September Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told the Lithuanian portal 15min that Russia can use Belarusian territory to escalate and provoke NATO…
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Who May Start One
From 1 July 2027 the security service will check the people who found a Belarusian non-commercial organisation before it can register
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Branches Outside the Frame
The Centre for New Ideas published the third wave of its Telegram mapping on 8 September
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The Suspended Partner
Between 26 August and 2 September, Russian Houses in Belarus handed out 1,500 backpacks to first-year pupils in at least five regions.
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